The James Logan Courier

Hadiyah Hassan, Courier Staff Writer

At the end of the last school year, the New Haven School Board questioned whether the James Logan media center should be closed. After meetings of trying determining its status, it was decided that it would not be closed for this school year.

An argument for shutting down the library was that most of the staff that had worked in the library received pink slips; this left only one person working. Budget cuts, which were taken out of the school over the last passed year, also contributed to the question of whether or not the library should be closed.

Lauren Mascarenhas, Courier Staff Writer

Student elected ASB president, Mia Alansalon, hits the ground running organizing school events for Logan students to keep this year fresh and exciting.

Mia has been a part of leadership throughout her time at Logan. “I feel very honored that I was elected and I want to do my best to bring something new to our school,” said Alansalon. The seventeen-year-old senior is planning on shaking things up, “We’ve been making a lot of changes this year with the way some things are organized and executed. You can expect something to be happening every week. Whether it’s an event, or a rally, or a performance, something will always be happening.”

By Steven Zeitchik
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

TORONTO — In June 2009, just a few days before Brad Pitt, director Steven Soderbergh and others were set to board a plane for Phoenix to begin shooting the film version of Michael Lewis' baseball best-seller "Moneyball," the unthinkable happened. Despite the months spent preparing the shoot and the star wattage involved, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal pulled the plug on the movie. Soderbergh was leaving the project, the studio announced, and the film's future was in serious doubt.

From wikipedia:
Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

Read The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin, one of six of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.